CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1606, 12 January 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. ) (SPEOIAE TO UNITUIi PRKSS ASSSOi-iATiON. London, Jan. H. India declines to reduce tlie cable charges on general and Government cable-, grains. Germany lias also declined to make any reduction on press mpssages. Sir James Anderson, of the Eastern Extension Telegraph "Company is, however, still sanguine that a reduction will be effected. (REUTERS' TELEGRAMS.") . j Paris, Jan. 8.. It is announced that M. de Freycinet -has been successful m torming a Cabinet, m which he will assume tha portfolio of Foreign Affairs. General Bou-: langer goes to -the War Office, and M. Lockroy has been appointed Minister of Commerce. , . ... Capetown, Jan. 9. : The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Tongarivo left for New Zealand yesterday afternoon. -■ . ■ ; - London, Jan. 9. , The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,570,000 quarters. New Zealand" frozen mutton is realising' fivepence per pound m tlie ) Suuthfield market. : r '' ■'-'• Jan.lb;' Mr H. W. Lncy has been appointed. editor of the 'Daily News. '„"'.'''"' Parliament will be opened by Her Majesty m person.on th_e 21, st Jnst., r :A protocorhas been signed by 1 England and Spain granting to, England, all such privileges as are enjoyed by Germany m the Caroline Islands. i „., ■;.-. .Washington, Jau.. ,Q% > .The Senate has passed a measure of a very stringent character for the purpdse of repressine: the practice of gamy among the Mormons of Utah territory. ; ■■■:.-, Constantinople, Jan.;, 9. ; *:. Greece is now assuming a more friendly attitude toward tlie Porte, and a large number of the troops recently massed on the frpritier have been granted;.fur-* :loughs.;, The, ostensible reagoii js. tlie occurrence of" the Cliristmas "liotidays, bui! itj iß^generaUY. r supp6ied.that.the Greek G^vernnieni^have- adopt^d^'an^indJre^t method of disbanding their forces.